Mntsnow
12-20-2004, 8:07 AM
A European Union judge is due to decide this week if antitrust sanctions imposed on Microsoft should be suspended -- a move the software giant hopes would lead to new settlement talks.
The European Commission decided in March that Microsoft used its Windows near-monopoly in the computer operating systems market to hurt competitors, and ordered it make information available to rivals and sell a version of Windows without audio-visual software so that other software suppliers were not pre-empted. Read more at Cnn Money (http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/19/news/fortune500/bc.tech.microsoft.eu.reut/index.htm)
The European Commission decided in March that Microsoft used its Windows near-monopoly in the computer operating systems market to hurt competitors, and ordered it make information available to rivals and sell a version of Windows without audio-visual software so that other software suppliers were not pre-empted. Read more at Cnn Money (http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/19/news/fortune500/bc.tech.microsoft.eu.reut/index.htm)